[Beowulf] hp dl170h g6?

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 at 10:01pm, Michael Di Domenico wrote
> Does anyone on the list have HP DL170h G6 blade chassis's on their
> floor? Ours came with the on-board NIC mac addresses programmed in
> descending order, I'm curious if this is something new, I've never
> seen this done before. Every machine we have on the floor now has
> them in ascending order.
>> The downside to the nic enumeration is that in bios eth0 is eth0 and
> pxe's from eth0, however, when inside anaconda (redhat) eth0 is really
> eth1, and thus kickstart cant run. The only time i've seen this
> happen is when the nic drivers load out of order, but that's easy to
> fix in the initrd
I demoed the a chassis full of the HP SL2x170z G6s, and they had the same
problem -- BIOS/PXE eth0 became eth1 in anaconda. I worked around it by
passing anaconda "ksdevice=bootif" in the pxe config file. But, yeah,
it's annoying having to work around oddness like that. I'm looking at
that model or the DL160 G6 (standard 1U), and I imagine the 160 will have
the same issue.
> Does anyone know if this is firmware flash fixable? HP refuses to
> acknowledge the question...
And, if it is, how many person-years will it take to find said firmware
flash file on HP's website (seriously, how broken is that site!?)?
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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF